Zillow, Inc.

Mftb Holdco, Inc.

Zillow Group, Inc.

Dun-Yu Hsiao

Li Guan

Andrew H Otwell

Mitchell David Dawson

Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations to control acquisition of images in a defined area, including obtaining and using data from one or more hardware sensors on a mobile device that is acquiring the images, analyzing the sensor data (e.g., in a real-time manner) to determine the geometric orientation of the mobile device in three-dimensional (3D) space, and using that determined orientation to control the acquisition of further images by the mobile device. In some situations, the determined orientation information may be used in part to automatically generate and display a corresponding GUI (graphical user interface) that is overlaid on and augments displayed images of the environment surrounding the mobile device during the image acquisition process, so as to control the mobile device's geometric orientation in 3D space.

Automated control of image acquisition via use of mobile device user interface

Automated control of image acquisition via use of mobile device interface

Automated control of image acquisition via use of hardware sensors and camera content

Automated control of image acquisition via acquisition location determination

Automated control of image acquisition via use of acquisition device sensors

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Dun-Yu Hsiao